Natacha Raffin
Research Faculty
Professor
ENS-Paris-Saclay
Research Interests:
Environmental economics, economic growth, health and population dynamics
Short bio:
Natacha Raffin is a professor in economics at the ENS Paris-Saclay where she has been a faculty member since 2022. She is the director of the Master degree program in economics since 2022. During 2016-2022, she has been professor at University Rouen Normandy and during 2010-2016, assistant professor at Paris-Nanterre University.
She completed her Ph.D. at University Paris 1, Paris School of Economics. Her main fields of interest are environmental economics, economic growth, health and population dynamics. Much of her work has been on improving the understanding of the twofold interactions between economic development and the environment overtime, through the particular channel of health. She has also investigated changes in fertility behaviors in recent decades in developing countries as well as the evolutions of patriarchal regimes along the process of development.
Natacha is the instructor for macroeconomics in the undergraduate program and public economics in the master’s program.
Publications
Working Papers
Santé, Qualité Environnementale et Développement Économique
Revue Économique, 60, 831-841, 2009Natacha Raffin
Life expectancy and the environment
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 34, 798-815, 2010Natacha Raffin
Children's environmental health, education and economic development
Canadian Journal of Economics, 45, 996-1022, 2012Natacha Raffin
Longevity, pollution and growth
Mathematical Social Sciences, 69, 22-33, 2014Natacha Raffin
Education and the political economy of environmental protection
Annals of Economics and Statistics, 115-116, 379-407, 2014Natacha Raffin
Environnement, croissance et inégalités : le rôle particulier du canal de la santé
Revue Française d'Economie, 3, 9-29, 2016Natacha Raffin
The cost of pollution on longevity, welfare and economic stability
Environmental and Resource Economics, 68, 683-704, 2017Natacha Raffin
Reproductive health, fairness and optimal policies
Journal of Public Economic Theory, 22, 1213-1244, 2020Natacha Raffin